Advanced Microeconomic Theory : An Intuitive Approach With Examples
Editors: Felix Muñoz-Garcia.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: MICROECONOMICS ; ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICAL.
Description:
This textbook offers an introduction to advanced microeconomic theory that emphasizes the intuition behind mathematical assumptions, providing step-by-step examples that show how to apply theoretical models. It covers standard topics such as preference relations, demand theory and applications, producer theory, choice under uncertainty, partial and general equilibrium, monopoly, game theory and imperfect competition, externalities and public goods, and contract theory; but its intuitive and application-oriented approach provides students with a bridge to more technical topics…More…
A Primer In Financial Data Management
Author: Martijn Groot.
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2017
Subjects: FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY — DATA PROCESSING.
Description:
A Primer in Financial Data Management describes concepts and methods, considering financial data management, not as a technological challenge, but as a key asset that underpins effective business management.This broad survey of data management in financial services discusses the data and process needs from the business user, client and regulatory perspectives. Its non-technical descriptions and insights can be used by readers with diverse interests across the financial services industry…More…
Companion To The Political Economy Of Rent Seeking
Editors: Roger D. Congleton,Arye L. Hillman.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subjects: RENT SEEKING ; RENT (ECONOMIC THEORY).
Description:
The expert and original contributions summarize and extend the literature in both theoretical and applied areas of research. The book begins with a clear and comprehensive description of the theory of rent seeking and of contest design for political and bureaucratic rent extraction. This is followed by a series of case studies showing the relevance of rent seeking for regulatory policies, international-trade policies, public finance, natural-resource discoveries, development aid, behavior in international bureaucracies, litigation and judicial systems. The applied chapters also include overviews of rent seeking and rent extraction in Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa and the US…More…
Competition And Regulation In Electricity Markets
Editors: Sebastian Eyre and Michael G. Pollitt.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: ELECTRIC UTILITIES– ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
Featuring an original introduction by the editors, these carefully-selected essays explore the main issues surrounding competition and regulation in electricity markets. The industry is experiencing irresistible forces of change, driven by energy policy objectives; a reassessment of market regulation in the face of high-energy prices; and the response to consumer pressure to agree on what constitutes a fair price for energy. This volume identifies the key articles that underpin the debate across the industries supply chain (generation, supply and networks) from a regulatory perspective (including market power and incentive regulation). The collection then considers the overall impact of liberalisation and future developments…More…
Economics Of Climate-Resilient Development
Editors: Sam Frankhauser and Thomas K.J. McDermott.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: CLIMATIC CHANGES — ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
Description:
This timely and unique book takes an integrated look at the twin challenges of climate change and development. The book treats adaptation to climate change as an issue of climate-resilient development, rather than as a bespoke set of activities (flood defences, drought plans, and so on), combining climate and development challenges into a single strategy. It asks how the standard approaches to development need to change, and what socio-economic trends and urbanisation mean for the vulnerability of developing countries to climate risks…More…
Housing Economics And Public Policy : Essays In Honour Of Duncan Maclennan
Editors: Tony O’Sullivan and Kenneth Gibb.
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Year: 2003
Subjects: HOUSING POLICY ; HOUSING — GREAT BRITAIN ; HOUSING.
Description:
This book is a timely assessment of 20 years of progress in the field of housing economics and its application to policy and practice. Two decades on from the publication of Duncan Maclennan’s influential Housing Economics, 16 leading housing experts – both academics and policy makers from across the world – now honour Maclennan’s contributions. The chapters here present a contemporary survey of key issues in housing, from urban housing markets and sub-market modelling, to the economics of social housing, the basis for housing planning, economic analysis of neighborhoods, and the connections between academic work and policy development…More…
Inflation Targeting : Lessons From The International Experience
Editors: Ben S. Bernanke[and three others].
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1999
Subjects: INFLATION TARGETING — CASE STUDIES.
Description:
The book begins by explaining the unique features and advantages of inflation targeting. The authors argue that the simplicity and openness of inflation targeting make it far easier for the public to understand the intent and effects of monetary policy. This strategy also increases policymakers’ accountability for inflation performance and can accommodate flexible, even “discretionary,” monetary policy actions without sacrificing central banks’ credibility. The authors examine how well variants of this approach have worked in nine countries: Germany and Switzerland (which employ a money-focused form of inflation targeting), New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel, Spain, and Australia…More…
Introduction To Business Analytics Using Simulation
Editors: Jonathan P. Pinder.
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2017
Subjects: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ; BUSINESS — COMPUTER SIMULATION.
Description:
Introduction to Business Analytics Using Simulation employs an innovative strategy to teach business analytics. It uses simulation modeling and analysis as mechanisms to introduce and link predictive and prescriptive modeling. Because managers can’t fully assess what will happen in the future, but must still make decisions, the book treats uncertainty as an essential element in decision-making…More…
Market Instruments And The Protection Of Natural Resource
Editors: Natalie P. Stoianoff [and four others].
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CHARGES.
Description:
The expert contributors emphasise the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to stem the tide of irreparable harm to our natural resources. Market instruments that are designed to protect the global atmosphere are evaluated, along with carbon instruments and environmental tax incentives. Meanwhile, consideration is given to shifting the tax burden to achieve environmentally responsible outcomes, balancing sustainable use and natural resource protection, and protecting water resources.Offering a comprehensive appraisal of market instruments and policy solutions for natural resource protection, this book is ideal for both policy makers and students and academics of environmental law, economics and sustainability…More…
Microbehavioral Econometric Methods : Theories, Models, And Applications For The Study Of Environmental And Natural Resource
Author: Sungno Niggol Seo.
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS — ECONOMETRIC MODELS.
Description:
Microbehavioral Econometric Methods and Environmental Studies uses microeconometric methods to model the behavior of individuals, then demonstrates the modelling approaches in addressing policy needs. It links theory and methods with applications, and it incorporates data to connect individual choices and global environmental issues. This extension of traditional environmental economics presents modeling strategies and methodological techniques, then applies them to hands-on examples.Throughout the book, readers can access chapter summaries, problem sets, multiple household survey data with regard to agricultural and natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and India, and empirical results and solutions from the SAS software…More…
Oligopoly, Auctions And Market quality
Author: Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2017
Subjects: GLOBALIZATION — ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; GLOBALIZATION.
Description:
This book provides an economic analysis of various aspects of `market quality’, a new concept which emerged in the 21st century, using the tools of `oligopoly theory’ and `auction theory’ that evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries. In the economics literature the link between the theories of oligopoly and auctions with market quality remains largely unexplored. This book attempts to forge such a link as it brings together relevant theoretical results in the literature on these topics under a unified framework. While the book is mainly theoretical in nature, it also discusses some specific issues related to the problems of market quality in emerging economies like India…More…
Spatial Econometrics: Qualitative And Limited Dependent Variables
Editors: Badi H. Baltagi, James P. Lesage and R. Kelly Pace.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2017
Subjects: SPATIAL ANALYSIS (STATISTICS) ; ECONOMETRICS.
Description:
Advances in Econometrics is a research annual whose editorial policy is to publish original research articles that contain enough details so that economists and econometricians who are not experts in the topics will find them accessible and useful in their research. Volume 37 exemplifies this focus by highlighting key research from new developments in econometrics…More…
Taxation And Development : The Weakest Link? : Essays In Honor Of Roy Bahl
Editor: Richard M. Bird.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2014
Subjects: TAXATION– DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Description:
Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus on developing and applying new modeling techniques to country-specific data.The contributors demonstrate the critical importance of considering tax issues within the specific context of each country, taking into account not only the level and structure of its economic development but also its history, regional location, and political institutions. Individual chapters cover a range of issues both past and present, and offer insightful recommendations for future research and policy implementation. While a great deal of work has been done on the subject in recent decades, this comprehensive book reveals just how much more we have to learn…More…
The Economics Of E-Commerce
Editors: Michael R. Baye and John Morgan.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE — SOCIAL ASPECTS.
Description:
This comprehensive collection, edited by two pioneers of e-commerce, presents thirty of the most important papers written in the fields of economics, marketing and strategy. Topics covered include evaluation of the benefit to consumers of competition and product variety online, examination of auctions and reputational feedback mechanisms designed to mitigate informational asymmetries in online markets, and the debate on digital property rights including privacy, piracy and the open source movement. Together with an original introduction by the editors, this title provides a readily accessible wealth of material on the subject of e-commerce, invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike…More…
The Economics Of Standards
Editor: Albert N. Link.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: STANDARDIZATION — ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
This comprehensive single volume includes seminal articles written by eminent scholars that study the role of standards in the competitive process, the diffusion of standards throughout industry and the role of the public sector in support of standards development. With an original introduction by the editor, this volume is an excellent source of reference and provides an invaluable foundation for students and researchers interested in standards…More…
The Elgar Companion To Ronald H. Coase
Editors: Claude Ménard, Elodie Bertrand.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: ECONOMICS — GREAT BRITAIN — HISTORY — 20st CENTURY.
Description:
The book presents a review of the continuing power of Coase’s work, including the reshaping of public policies with particular respect to public utilities and network industries. Further chapters explore research programmes that he initiated including the concept of transaction costs and the analysis of property rights, especially in terms of the regulation of the communications industry and the creation of markets for the right to pollute. The book clearly demonstrates the originality of Coase’s work and the challenge that it posed to conventional perspectives which has been a hallmark of his research throughout his life, from his initial view on the nature of the firm to his recent analysis of the development of capitalism in China…More…
The Development Of World Trade Organization Law : Examining Change In International Law
Author: Gregory Messenger.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: FOREIGN TRADE REGULATION ; TARIFF — LAW AND REGULATION.
Description:
The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law examines the development of WTO law through an analysis of competing global actors, norms, and institutions. Taking a different approach to social-scientific or traditional legal models, this book argues that such globalized actors are the driving force behind the development of WTO law yet not in control of it. Identifying causal language as key to understanding this development, the volume examines three different causal influences: instrumental, systemic, and constitutive…More…